Top Gear USA

[JTP]

I have over 80 GB of Top Gear on my computer and you're not alone on this, I think Top Gear USA blows. Although the American TG guys screw around, their antics are almost exact carbon copies of the British guy's stunts. Top Gear UK also filled theirs cars with water, got chased by a helicopter gunship, raced cars on a dirt track, and had collanders with eggs over their heads. It's all too similar down to the Stig. They don't even call him the "Stig's American Cousin". The big disappointing difference is these American boys don't have the interpersonal dynamics that Clarkson/May/Hammond have which is why most people watch Top Gear. Even the UK version does not offer much technical information and their reviews on cars isn't that great but it's fun to watch. Watching TG US. Felt like I was watching a rehearsed pseudo reality show like Orange County Choppers or American Hot Rod. Totally lame.
I don't know why we must Americanize everything and usually when we do it gets distorted and bastardized into something awful.

[jmatta]

Really lame, even though I like Tanner Faust. It truly is a parody of the British show; a poor one, at that. They could have taken the concept and made their own unique show; but it is so carbon copy, it is pitiful.